MAKE Flickr photo pool member Mushmouth26 made his own DIY poker table- “This is a $99 plastic table from Sams. I modified with cup holders for poker games. The table itself works great for poker. The problem was that the cards would get wet from the sweat coming off the beer… I made the middle […]
Jon writes – “One of my friends is a manager at a local movie theater, which uses a digital projector to show advertisements between features. After seeing the It Burns When I Wii video, we figured we could one-up it with the equivalent of a 344″ television screen. We wanted to use my friend’s Nintendo […]
Spark Fun Electronics poked at the EPROM on the Wii, fun stuff– “We just couldn’t not do it. We had to see what was on the Wii EEPROM. There’s surprising amount of 8051 instructions actually. How neat! We hot-aired off the EEPROM and soldered it down to our SSOP breakout board. We then hooked up […]
Pablot writes – “This is the first hardware mod available for the Nintendo Wii. It’s called the PulseVU for Wii and is an internal chip that takes control of the light bar on the Nintendo Wii. It fades the lights when the console is off and pulses them with the audio when the console is […]
Our pals @ Spark Fun Electronics cracked open a Wiimote, check out all the photos and parts list… (You’ll find a Bluetooth IC, IR sensor, vibratory motor, speaker, triple axis accelerometer, an I2C EEPROM, and a range of passives. Not bad for $55.) “I promise. No more ‘Wii’ jokes. My brother sent me the link […]
Wow, Ben Heck is busy – here are a couple project he kicked out this weekend… Design a 2D robo-hand – I’m going to download the files and pop them in the laser tonight (hopefully!)… For today’s How-To we’re going to go through the process of designing a somewhat complex item that can be cut […]
If you want to play your own movies on your Nintendo Wii, here are some settings that seem to work. Jack writes – “As it turns out, the Wii can play home movies as well as show pictures from your digital camera. The only trick is to get the movie in the right format, which […]
